With such a dream arising, at least in part, from the Protestant heritage of the United States and built into the foundations of the nation, it is not surprising that many efforts were made to give it concrete expression.

Some etymologies are part of urban legends, and seem to respond to a general taste for the surprising, counterintuitive and even scandalous.

In Europe, Herodotus become known and highly respected only in the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century as an ethnographer, in part due to the discovery of America, where customs and animals were encountered even more surprising than what he had related.

She had no idea that he was looking to fill any particular film part, however, but remembers that Kazan set up the scenario with Brando which brought out surprising emotions:

This may seem surprising in light of the focus of the pan-green coalition on promoting aboriginal culture as part of the Taiwanese nationalist discourse against the KMT.

It may not seem surprising to us that when Rivers was to apply a needle to a particularly sensitive part of the glans that " pain appeared and was so excessively unpleasant that cried out and started away "; indeed, such a test could be seen as a futility verging on the masochistic.

With Dublin, an early Viking settlement, as the setting for Finnegans Wake, it is perhaps not surprising that Joyce incorporated a number of Norwegian linguistic and cultural elements into the work ( notably Riksmål references for the most part ).

Admiral Rodney the commander of the Leeward Islands station of the Royal Navy attacked the Dutch colonies in that part of the Caribbean: St. Eustatius, Saba, and Saint Martin, as soon as he had received word of the declaration of war, in the process surprising a number of Dutch naval and merchant ships, who were still unaware of the start of hostilities.

The surprising and fulfilling feeling of epiphany is so surprising because one cannot predict when one's labour will bear fruit, and our subconsciousness can play a significant part in delivering the solution ; and is fulfilling because it is a reward for a long period of effort.

The Allies, who would otherwise probably have done as the French marshal desired, were by the fortune of war afforded the opportunity of surprising a part of the enemy's forces.

Yukio Mishima wrote a short story published in 1966 called Three Million Yen where a sex show is a surprising part of the story.

When the regiment came under heavy attack from the Confederate 15th Alabama regiment, part of the division led by Maj. Gen. John Bell Hood, the 20th Maine ran low on ammunition after one and a half hours of continued fighting ; it responded to the sight of rebel infantry forming again for yet another push at them by charging downhill with fixed bayonets, surprising and scattering the Confederates, thus ending the attack on the hill.

This shows that he was unaware of two different proofs of this statement that Schönemann had given, one in either part of a two-part article, the second of which being the one based on the criterion cited above ; this is all the more surprising given the fact that two pages further Eisenstein actually refers ( for a different matter ) to the first part of Schönemann's article.

He was a part of a small group of Republican congressmen the National Journal said possessed a surprising amount of power given their youth and lack of experience in Congress.

" Director Mike Judge commented that part of what was surprising to learn about Kunis was her ability to make references to the cult animation film Rejected.

For example, a prince's entourage would not only include professional courtiers, but also various bishops, clerics and other clerks, senior members of the aristocracy and other more occasional advisers, translators et cetera, who would often not be part of a sovereign's ( more permanent ) retinue, even though that could comprise a surprising variety of functions, from menial to lofty.

The two most surprising losses of the Home Fleet during the early part of the war were the sinking of the old battleship by the German submarine while supposedly safe in Scapa Flow, and the loss of the pride of the Navy, the battlecruiser, to the German battleship Bismarck.

For I was 10th at first dash to tell you that I had lately received a letter from him so surprising to me for the inconsistency of every part of it, as to be put into great disorder by it, from the concern I have for him, lest it should arise from that which of all mankind I should least dread from him and most lament for I mean a discomposure in head, or mind, or both.

A paraprosdokian () is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part.

In a surprising result, mathematical models predict that the sexual network graph for the human race appears to have a single giant component that indirectly links almost all people who have had more than one sexual partner, and a great many of those who have had only one sexual partner ( if their one sexual partner was themselves part of the giant component ).

The second event was a surprising agreement with the Duke of Wroclaw, Henry I the Bearded, under which Władysław surrendered the Duchy of Kalisz ( part of the patrimony of his nephew Władysław Odonic ) in exchange of Lubusz, whereby it was easier to pursue an active policy on the Baltic coast.

The surprising discovery of the Weaire – Phelan structure and disproof of the Kelvin conjecture is one reason for the caution in accepting Hales ' proof of the Kepler conjecture.

In general its properties, such as functional equation, are still conjectural – the Taniyama – Shimura conjecture ( which was proven in 2001 ) was just a special case, so that's hardly surprising.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

Though the four boys and two girls, the youngest nineteen years of age, the oldest twenty-four, came from varying backgrounds and had different professional and personal interests, there was surprising agreement among them.

They learn to like these so well that it isn't surprising to hear that one boy tried the oats he was feeding his horse at chore time.

Anne said it wasn't surprising because Charles was antisocial, a lone wolf, and completely one-sided.

Being behind the technological curve was not entirely surprising ; the chipset used in the 400 and 800 was designed because they were aware the 2600 would be obsolete by the 1980 time frame.

What was surprising was the sudden entry into the market of new competition, whose machines quickly cut off the sales of the 2600.

It has been remarked that this development in the law was somewhat surprising at the time, as the relevant provisions in Table A ( as it was then ) seemed to contradict this approach rather than to endorse it.

Brotherly affection was likely at a minimum, but this was hardly surprising, considering that Domitian had barely seen Titus after the age of seven.

When Austria-Hungary and Germany formed an alliance in 1879, it was one of the more surprising alliances of its time.

This action was somewhat surprising, as Levi had not only attempted to purchase Ethan's release while he was in Halifax, but he had also traveled to New York while Ethan was on parole there, and furnished him with goods and money.

Xanadu was turned into a surprising hit Broadway Musical that opened on 10 July 2007 at the Helen Hayes Theatre to uniformly good reviews and received 4 Tony Award nominations.

Jacob Grimm noted that if, as Adam of Bremen states, Fosite's sacred island was Heligoland, that would make him an ideal candidate for a deity known to both Frisians and Scandinavians, but that it is surprising he is never mentioned by Saxo Grammaticus.

Even more surprising was Carías's public acceptance of defeat and his urging of his supporters to accept the new government.

The peaceful transition of power was surprising because the onset of the depression had led to the overthrow of governments elsewhere throughout Latin America, in nations with much stronger democratic traditions than those of Honduras.

The result of the game was surprising to many in the sports media as Joe Namath and Matt Snell led Jets to the Super Bowl victory, under head coach Weeb Ewbank, who won two NFL Championships with the Colts.

An exhaustive analysis of diaries, letters, and travelers ' journals from colonial times up to the Civil War, undertaken by Dena J. Epstein and detailed in her book Sinful Tunes and Spirituals, yielded a surprising number of references to slave music that was primarily percussive.

Maurice Jones-Drew, the Jaguars ' second round draft pick, was one of the more surprising rookies in the NFL.

In 1637 Werth was once more in the Rhine valley, destroying convoys, relieving besieged towns and surprising the enemy's camps.

The other, more surprising choice was Nevitta, Julian's trusted Frankish general.